Prof. Rangan Banerjee

Prof. Rangan Banerjee has more than three decades of experience in teaching and research in the field of energy.  He is the Director of IIT Delhi (since 2022) and a Professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering.

He has helped to set up a Department of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay in 2012 and was its first Head.  He has been involved in several projects for industry on energy efficiency, renewables and modelling.  He has been the Dean (R&D) at IIT Bombay and was responsible for several new initiatives for research infrastructure, industry consortia and centres, technology transfer and licensing and supporting  student research.

He was involved in setting up a Megawatt Scale Solar Thermal Power  Plant cum test Facility Sponsored by the Indian Govt.  He was the faculty advisor of Team Shunya- a student team that represented India in Solar Decathlon Europe, China and the US and built houses running on solar energy.

He was a lead author of the Global Energy Assessment Coordinated by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis and was a member of the International Review Committee for the RCUK Review of UKs Energy programme.